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Stronger In’s patronisin’ #votin campaign to attract the yoof

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The Stronger In campaign has launched a new drive to get younger voters involved in the referendum. Unfortunately, it's more than just a little patronising.

They've ditched any mention of 'stronger' or 'remain' and seemingly, the letter 'g' from all the advertising in an attempt to engage the youths of the today. They want young people aged 18 - 24, who they think are earnin', ravin', chattin', roamin', sharin', and livin', to start votin'.
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Rees-Mogg blasts Carney for being ‘creature of government’ on Brexit

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Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England has refused to shift his position on Brexit during heated clashes which saw him attacked for being a “creature of the government” and peddling pro-EU “propaganda”.

During tense exchanges with members of the Treasury Select Committee, Mr Carney doubled down on claims made last week that a vote to leave the European Union could force the UK economy into recession whilst batting off criticism that he has come under the influence of the Treasury.
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Steve Hilton: Vote Leave to deal blow to technocratic elite

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Britain should vote to leave the European Union to "strike a decisive blow against" a "technocratic elite of bureaucrats" who have "dehumanised the modern world", David Cameron's former adviser has said.

Steve Hilton, who was one of the prime minister's closest aides until he left Downing Street in 2012, attacked Brussels in an article he wrote for the Daily Mail yesterday.
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The EU question

Bananas! Graphs! Immigrants! FEAR! The Brexit debate in full

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SIDE A: A vote for the other thing will lead to a total collapse in all things, especially a twelfty per cent crash in PDG, house prices will slump by a rise of a xillionth per cent more than less than forecast and unemployment could increase by the equivalent of the number of letters in a city the size of Birmingham.

SIDE B: Liar, liar pants on fire. Bananas! Have you seen me talking to this ordinary normal person. Bananas! The wheels on the battlebus go round and round, but I'm only on it three days a week. Underpants! The rest of the time it's other people who no-one wants to take a photo of. Bananas!
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The health of the NHS

Estimates put the number of people in the UK taking cannabis for medical reasons at around one million. This week, the campaign for a change in the law to allow doctors to prescribe cannabis and have it dispensed from pharmacies steps up a gear with the launch of a major lobbying drive.

How can we justify a situation where someone with an identical condition on the continent has access to high-quality, prescription medicine, yet on the other side of the English Channel the same person would be expected to suffer in silence?
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The EU question

Since the start of the EU referendum campaign one thing has been strikingly obvious - the monopolisation of the debate by men.

A report published yesterday by Loughborough University showed that women were ‘significantly marginalised’ in TV reporting of the campaign.

Labour’s own analysis shows that male voices have been consistently over-represented during the campaign. This means key arguments about the implications of being in or out of Europe are simply not being heard by women. It's time we had gender balance too.
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Blonde hair, don’t care: Boris praises Hilton

Image ©Licensed to i-Images Picture Agency. 23/05/2016. London, United Kingdom. Boris Johnson delivers a speech as he campaigns for 'Vote Leave' on Parliament Street in York, England, during the run up to the EU referendum in Britain. Picture by Ben Stevens / i-Images
Taking the Vote Leave battle bus York this afternoon, the former Mayor of London waved around a copy of today's Daily Mail, containing an article written by former Downing Street adviser Steve Hilton.

In it he said the EU is "anti-market, stifling innovation and competition with its statism, corporatism and bureaucracy" and Britain should vote to leave to put take back power from "arrogant, unaccountable elites".
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Polling

Cameron’s approval ratings drop as Her Majesty’s are flying high

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II speaks with British Prime Minister David Cameron (2nd R) during a reception in Buckingham Palace in London on May 10, 2016. British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday called Nigeria and Afghanistan "possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world" as he hailed their leaders' attendance at an anti-corruption summit in London. He was caught on camera making the remarks to Queen Elizabeth II and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby at an event marking the monarch's 90th birthday last month. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / PAUL HACKETTPAUL HACKETT/AFP/Getty Images
David Cameron can only hope for a satisfaction rating as high as Her Majesty’s as the buzz of the Conservative election victory has worn off, new polling data shows.

The Queen, having just celebrated her ninetieth birthday, is currently enjoying a net approval rating of a whopping 81 per cent, closely followed by Prince William on 73 per cent. Prince Charles is on 60 per cent, according to new satisfaction data from Ipsos Mori.
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